Organic Pineapple Working Group

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Dear OPWG Members:

In order to be sure you're all aware that Duane has requested articles
for the 17th issue of Pineapple News, I'm redirecting the following
important email message from him to the group.

Also: I was pleased to note that a number of new members have joined
the OPWG discussion group over the past few months and have been
meaning to ask them to post a brief resume informing all list
members regarding the experience, background and interests they're
bringing to OPWG.

Lastly, let me remind you that THIS IS YOUR LIST and it's success
will be determined by what we do with it as a group. All those
willing to share their knowledge and suggestions are invited to do
so, and those looking for information are free to request it.

Hopefully, we will be able to make 2010 a productive, profitable
and pleasurable pineapple year.

Awaiting your responses, I remain

Douglas Hinds
Center for Community and Rural Development
Alliance for Socially and Environmentally Responsable Development
Mexico

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Dear Colleagues:

The 17th issue of Pineapple News is currently under preparation.  As of 
the date of this email, I have received only one contribution for the 
newsletter and have two other contributions promised.

One of the contributions will come from Dr. Park Nobel, a distinguished 
biophysical plant physiologist and popular author of books on agaves and 
cacti as well as a world's authority on the ecophysiology of 
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants.  I asked Dr. Nobel to write a 
brief note on this metabolic pathway used by pineapple as well as the 
plants he studies, mainly agaves and cacti. This is timely, as his new 
book, "/DESERT WISDOM//AGAVES and CACTI: CO2, Water, Climate Change 
(iUniverse)" has just appeared. This book, which is only $16.95 in 
softcover and $6.00 as an ebook, describes the CAM pathway in 
down-to-earth language as well as considers the responses of plants to 
environmental conditions, including those accompanying global climate 
change. You can check it out on his website, www.eeb.ucla.edu/nobel 
<http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/nobel>.

Please plan to contribute research notes, research reports (suggested 
length of four pages of 12 point type, not including figures and 
tables), industry and country reports, etc. to the newsletter.  If you 
desire editorial help, please contribute material to me no later than 
March 1, 2010.  For all others, please email a statement of your intent 
to contribute by March 1, 2010.

For those planning to present a paper at the 7th International Pineapple 
Symposium, you can submit a condensed version of your work to Pineapple 
News and if acceptable to the editorial committee, also have your full 
article published in the proceedings of the meeting.  Information on the 
7th International Symposium can be obtained at 
https://anjungnet.mardi.gov.my/Conference.nsf/PineApple_symp_prog?OpenPage.

Pineapple News presently goes to about 550 researchers, growers and 
"friends" of pineapple in 81 countries and territories.  Share your work 
or news with the readers of Pineapple News, many of whom will not be 
attending the symposium for a wide variety of reasons.

With best regards,
Duane

-- 
Duane P. Bartholomew, Ph.D., Agronomist emeritus
Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1910 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822
Pineapple News on the web at 
http://www.ishs-horticulture.org/workinggroups/pineapple/.




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Dear Colleagues:

The 17th issue of Pineapple News is currently under preparation.  As of the date of this email, I have received only one contribution for the newsletter and have two other contributions promised.

One of the contributions will come from Dr. Park Nobel, a distinguished biophysical plant physiologist and popular author of books on agaves and cacti as well as a world's authority on the ecophysiology of Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants.  I asked Dr. Nobel to write a brief note on this metabolic pathway used by pineapple as well as the plants he studies, mainly agaves and cacti. This is timely, as his new book, "DESERT WISDOM/AGAVES and CACTI: CO2, Water, Climate Change (iUniverse)" has just appeared. This book, which is only $16.95 in softcover and $6.00 as an ebook, describes the CAM pathway in down-to-earth language as well as considers the responses of plants to environmental conditions, including those accompanying global climate change. You can check it out on his website, www.eeb.ucla.edu/nobel.

Please plan to contribute research notes, research reports (suggested length of four pages of 12 point type, not including figures and tables), industry and country reports, etc. to the newsletter.  If you desire editorial help, please contribute material to me no later than March 1, 2010.  For all others, please email a statement of your intent to contribute by March 1, 2010.

For those planning to present a paper at the 7th International Pineapple Symposium, you can submit a condensed version of your work to Pineapple News and if acceptable to the editorial committee, also have your full article published in the proceedings of the meeting.  Information on the 7th International Symposium can be obtained at https://anjungnet.mardi.gov.my/Conference.nsf/PineApple_symp_prog?OpenPage.

Pineapple News presently goes to about 550 researchers, growers and "friends" of pineapple in 81 countries and territories.  Share your work or news with the readers of Pineapple News, many of whom will not be attending the symposium for a wide variety of reasons.

With best regards,
Duane

-- 
Duane P. Bartholomew, Ph.D., Agronomist emeritus
Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1910 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822
Pineapple News on the web at http://www.ishs-horticulture.org/workinggroups/pineapple/.

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